Date: 11/7/20 Miles: 12.0Total Miles: 2457.3 One final night came and went, and the stars that had thrust aside the evening clouds dissolved into the gray light of morning. I rolled over and lit the stove for coffee before closing my eyes for a few more minutes thinking how, in spite of this being our...
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Rookie Perspective #6: The End
A guest post by Ace Holy shit! We did it. After more than 100 days and 2500 miles we reached the southern terminus of the CDT. Most importantly, Mountain Man did it. I cannot believe he has hiked three of these bad boys. And today, when we touched the obelisk marking the end of the...
The Unfinished Symphony
Date: 11/6/20 Miles: 23.4Total Miles: 2445.3 To walk away now would be madness. Not unlike the mystery behind Franz Schubert’s Eighth Symphony—better known as the Unfinished Symphony—which remained unfinished for reasons that were known only to the composer himself, our own symphony of a CDT thru-hike remains incomplete but only for one more day. 12...
Donald Trump is Still a Clown
Date: 11/5/20 Miles: 25.2Total Miles: 2421.9 And now, for something completely different... Four years ago, I walked off the Pacific Crest Trail on the fringe of the Mojave Desert and into the cool sanctuary of a hotel lobby. There on the television was a man giving a press conference so cringeworthy, so comically fraught with...
To the Boot Heel
Date: 11/4/20 Miles: 22.7Total Miles: 2396.7 While Lordsburg floated into the distance behind us, we were swallowed by the great wide open now surrounding us. Not a tree in sight, not a cloud in the sky, and not a breath of the wind that, until now, had been a constant companion to help offset the...
